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The EmergeWiki is designed to
- crowdsource and synthesize vast and diverse sources of information
- to distill these into actionable Clinical Recommendations and other policy statements and best practices on how to skillfully relate to the deep end of human experience — what many would term spiritual, mystical, magical/psi, energetic, psychedelic, and related phenomena and effects — what we term Emergent Phenomena Experiences and Effects (EPEEs).
- in a way that promotes good outcomes.
It will compile information from the various traditions, cultures, religions, etc. with them representing themselves as they wish to be represented, consider this through the lens of patterns in a way that may have clinical applicability, and attempt the difficult, ongoing conversation of how to translate this diverse body of information into actionable clinical recommendations that scale and make a positive difference.
Its intention is also to be incorporated into Large Language Models, as these are increasingly informing clinical care, public information acquisition, and synthesis. It is intended to augment, enhance, and improve current clinical standards of care and best practices (but not replace them, as this is not designed to be a comprehensive resource on its own).
It is a continuation of a vast and complicated conversation that has occurred for millennia across diverse traditions, languages, cultures, and locations, but with the specific goal of supporting actionable, clinical information today. It is no substitute for human judgement and expertise, but may support it.
It is an experiment in how information from many traditions that have particular ontologies as diverse and apparently contradictory as, for example, Materialism, Cartesian Dualism, Dual Aspect Monism, Idealism, etc. may yet yield practical clinical guidelines and information that scale globally across diverse cultural settings, drawing on the concepts of Ontological Agnosticism or Ontological Neutrality, and add value to supporting Emergent Phenomena through focusing primarily on developing therapeutic relationships and what promotes good outcomes.
It is also an experiment in the application of practical Linguistic Scalability, meaning what language can scale globally in the same way as other global professional and technical lexicons, such as biological taxonomy.
Its goal is to facilitate sophisticated understandings of Emergent Phenomena and the vast range of consequences of Emergent Modalities up to and including doctoral and post-doctoral levels of functional knowledge.
Audience
Its intended audiences are diverse global clinical, medical, mental health, and public health providers, psychedelic and meditation practitioners and facilitators of those and related practices, as well everyone else interested in these topics, including experiencers, family members, facilitators, government officials, healthcare administrators, policy specialists, insurance providers, and attorneys, as well as many others, basically anyone at all interested in or impacted by Emergent Phenomena.
Supporting Organizations
It is a joint project of the 501(c)(3) charity Emergence Benefactors, the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC), and the Allies of the EPRC.
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EmergeWiki is offered freely, in the legal and ethical spirit of the Good Samaritan, public good, open source, and open science, in an effort to further the mandates of contemporary medical ethics as they apply to the deep end of human experience and potential.
In that same spirit, if you wish to support the building and maintenance of the EmergeWiki specifically or the work of Emergence Benefactors and the EPRC and its allies in general, please donate here. Thanks!
For Contributors
For our kind and generous contributors: Consult the MediaWiki User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
Organization: Projects, Disciplines, Traditions, Specialties, and the Multidimensional Framework
The organizational structure of EmergeWiki has numerous interlacing aspects to accommodate diverse data types and the diverse organizational needs those who wish to interact efficiently with that data. This organizational structure will evolve organically over time as the project grows. We will start with organizing it into:
Projects
EmergeWiki is designed to support the roadmap and Whitepaper of the EPRC and the work of its allies, which also fit topically into the larger structure of the EPRC roadmap. It is a structured, comprehensive, systematic, strategic, long-term, ethical plan for positive global systems change and meet specific epistemic requirements and preferences.
The EPRC plan is broken down into Projects which support each other, overlap in key ways, and act on many fronts to have significant impact. These projects are: The Phenomenology Project, The State of the Art Project, The Expert Opinion Project, The Neurophenomenology Project, The Theoretical Foundations Project, The Underlying Physiology Project, The Predisposing Factors Project, The Diagnosis Project, The Management Project, The Epidemiology Project, The Practice Project, The Psychedelic Project, The Mental Health and Emergence Project, The Anthropology Project, The Communications Project,The Special Projects, and The Value and Impact Project. These are further divided into Subprojects, and then Studies and other efforts.
Disciplines
Disciplines are a way of relating to EmergeWiki content based on the academic discipline(s) that cover it. Some closely align with Projects, e.g. the academic discipline of Anthropology close relating to The Anthropology Project, but other disciplines may have more complex relationships to the information here, such as theoretical and applied Medical Ethics which may interface with a wide range of Projects and other organizational structures.
Traditions
Traditions mean various religious, spiritual, and cultural traditions, and representing another way are a way of organizing and relating to EmergeWiki content based on the Source Traditions that began this conversation thousands of years ago and may continue it to today.
Specialties
Specialties, in this case Clinical Specialties, are a way of relating to and organizing the information in the EmergeWiki through the lens of the particular scope of the specialty in question. Closely related to the framework of Clinical Specialties is the resultant Clinical Recommendations which are a key output and product of EmergeWiki.
Thematic domains
The Multidimensional Framework is a product of multidisciplinary synthesis work by Olivier Sandilands. It integrates a wide range of lenses and focuses, and can be used as an alternative way of relating to the information in the EmergeWiki.
History
EmergeWiki was launched on September 18th, 2024 by a small team at Emergence Benefactors. You can learn more here about the History of EmergeWiki.
Phases
Phase II
Phase III
Work
If you are working on the EmergeWiki then please visit the EmergeWiki Base page for an outline of the design and work phases, and links to a list of tasks for Phase 1.
Governance
This will require an ongoing conversation, balancing the need for very broad inclusion and crowdsourcing information with the need for clinical guidelines presented here to be of the highest quality possible with currently available evidence.